The role of generic communication in preparing students for engineering workplace practices : the contribution of the communication course towards the student's preparation in genre and contextualized language in the workplace.

This thesis argues that generic communication practice plays an important role in preparing engineering students for the workplace. Engineering courses, being contextually-bound, cannot prepare students in the same way as generic courses, which can be more flexible in being able to bring workplace p...

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Main Author: Hondy, Richard.
Other Authors: Wildsmith, Rosemary.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7553